Steadfast. Keeping you connected.

[CORPORATE Info]

Providing Reliable Service.
If you are looking for not only network reliability, but a whole
company you can depend on, Steadfast Networks does it all.

CORPORATE Info

Our Network

Our high-performance, fully redundant network.

GigE Lines on Juniper Our network utilizes routing and switching products from Cisco Systems, the leaders in the industry. We utilize redundant Cisco 6509 (SUP720) routers as our core routers/switches and Cisco 2950/2960 switches in our aggregation/customer layer. Additional network equipment includes an InterNAP FCP to optimize overall network routing and performance. In addition, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is used at the core of the network to reduce the risks of internal congestion due to DDoS attacks and to maintain optimal flexibility.

Our network is fully meshed, using BGP, and redundant with a wide selection of backbone providers, including Level(3), Savvis, TeliaSonera, nLayer, and supplemented by local peering. We took care in choosing our carriers; our research showed them to be some of the fastest and most reliable networks available. Not only are the providers redundant, but their entry paths are redundant as well. Some carriers are brought into the network at Equinix and carried down three floors to our data center over redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines while several pairs of fiber also conect us to provider in the building Meet-Me Room (MMR). In the building there is also fiber from dozens of other companies such as Global Crossing, Abovenet, Qwest, and Sprint and easy access to the Equinix peering fabric as well as the Chicago Internet Exchange.

Internal Network

Backbone Carriers

Level(3)

Level(3) is one of the world's largest and most reliable carriers. Nine out of ten of the world's largest telecom carriers all continue to use Level(3) services, as do five of the top six U.S. Internet Service Providers, and nine out of ten of the largest European telecom carriers. The company operates a 22,500 mile broadband fiber optic network in 72 US markets and 20 European markets.

Savvis

The Savvis IP network spans 110 cities in 45 countries, encompassing the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, The Middle East, Asia and The Pacific Rim. Known as The Network that Powers Wall Street, more than 4,700 financial institutions, including 75 of the top 100 worldwide banks and 45 of the Top 50 brokerage firms, connect to SAVVIS to conduct secure high-speed transmission of financial and economic data. From this heritage of providing real-time applications management for the world's most demanding customers, Savvis now has over 70% of its customer base comprised of non-financial enterprises and 50% of the Fortune 500. Savvis' network reliability was declared "perfect" in Network World magazine's groundbreaking study of backbone performance. Savvis has recently purchased the US assets of Cable & Wireless making them one of the largest US carriers and is continuing its record of fast and extremely reliable service.

nLayer

nLayer Communications has designed and deployed a robust, legacy-free, and highly scalable network spanning key markets across North America. Major backbone nodes are connected via multiple OC-192 (10 Gbps) diversely routed circuits, provisioned over a highly scalable Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) infrastructure.

TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera is the leading Nordic and Baltic telecommunications group which was established in 2002, as the result of a merger between the Swedish and Finnish telecommunications companies, Telia and Sonera. Both companies have more than a century of experience in the telecommunications industry. TeliaSonera operates in more than 20 countries in Europe and in the U.S. and Russia with more than 24,800 wholly-owned global network route miles.